Dirt to curtains & everything in between...
The joys & sometimes trials of a simple country life.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Make way...here we come...

In 2004 we made our first journey from Charlotte NC to Levy county FL to check out a little piece of dirt for a potential new home for our family..What we ..found was a old run down single wide trailer and a very over grown property.

But this did not deter us...We fell in love and 6months later moved from NC to sunny FL.

So fast forward 5yrs or so and the old trailer is gone, the property is ours andon Tuesday morning November 17th 2009 this is how it looked.

Photo taken from the driveway....

Taken for the North West End of the yard..

And then later that same day...Taken from behind the tree line out in the open hay field...

Just a few short hours later and it is a thing of beauty...at last we have made way for our house to be nestled under the pecan tree's....Could this possibly be were the original homestead stood those many decades ago?

The Big Daughter

The Wee One

Little Boy Boots

Princess Deenie

Chicken Boy Bravo

Lucy and Ethel

Recycled Paper

Psalms 25:4-5

Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths: guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.

Why our family is here...

This little patch of Florida has seen a few generations and a couple of houses since it was first homesteaded in the late 1800's by hubby's ancestors..

In Nov 2009 we purchased this 5 acres parcel of land from his parents to build our new family home and to keep the original homesite in the family for another generation...

This blog was created to share our journey that started with clearing a spot for our new home where the old one once sat so long ago...Watching our house being built from the ground up...To the present as we create a home full of wonderful memories...Glad you could join us along the way.